Page Thirteen--Losing Control

In the 13th episode of All in Good Storytime we begin reading Acceptance, the final book in the Southern Reach Trilogy (previous books: Annihilation and Authority). We discover that Cynthia, the psychologist/former director grew up in the town that was to become Area X and was close with the lighthouse keeper. We see Control and Ghost Bird's journey through Area X paralleled with flashbacks of Cynthia's undercover travels to Area X with Whitby. We discuss what it means to be a clone versus an original, why the Forgotten Coast may have been the epicenter of Area X, and what the Séance & Science Brigade was up to in the lighthouse.